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This handout photo provided by the US Army, taken Oct. 26 shows a 10th Combat Aviation Brigade CH-47 Chinook helicopter, operated by members of the Texas and Oklahoma National Guard, flying a personnel and equipment movement mission over Kabul, Afghanistan.

North Korea freed an 85-year-old retired American soldier on Saturday after detaining him for more than a month for crimes it said he committed during the Korean War six decades ago.

Cuban Jewish leaders said Friday that they celebrated Hanukkah with imprisoned US government subcontractor Alan Gross this week, two days after he marked four years in custody.

My favorite TV shows this year were dour, cruel and often violent affairs - even my favorite reality-based show was about death.

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An Army sergeant charged with shooting a teenage girl in the head while another soldier killed her boyfriend outside Fort Stewart two years ago suffers from brain injuries and post-traumatic stress after serving in combat in Afghanistan, the sergeant's defense attorney said Friday.

A view of former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau during the marking the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops.

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The man faces sentencing Friday after pleading guilty to attempted murder in what authorities say was a plot to kill a couple in Southern California, in a case that highlights the reach of Mexican traffickers.

The monsoon rains have struck and the crowd remains huddled under a canopy, near plates of steaming food, as Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama strolls down the red carpet to open a waterfront picnic park in Fiji's capital, Suva.

As a wintry blast makes its way across the nation, Texas prepared for what one hardware store manager called "Ice Friday."

U.S. claims that dozens of Russian diplomats and their spouses cheated to get U.S. health-care aid meant for the poor drew a sharp rebuke Thursday from a top Russian official who blamed the criminal case on "Russophobic forces" interested in scuttling progress toward Russia-U.S. co-operation in confronting world conflicts.

An American chemistry teacher was shot to death as he was jogging in Benghazi on Thursday, highlighting persistently tenuous security in the eastern Libyan city where the U.S. ambassador was killed last year.

While the city's Metro-North Railroad is already getting hit with multimillion-dollar civil claims over a deadly commuter train derailment, prosecutors will face tough choices when deciding whether to bring criminal charges against the train's engineer, who told investigators he nodded or fell into a daze at the controls.

Nelson Mandela, who became one of the world's most beloved statesmen and a colossus of the 20th century when he emerged from 27 years in prison to negotiate an end to white minority rule in South Africa, has died.

The White House says the Obama administration has no reason to believe that a stolen shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 recovered in central Mexico posed a threat to the United States.

Jeffrey Dingman, center, arrives with his lawyers for a parole board meeting at the State Prison Thursday Dec. 5, 2013 in Concord, N.H. .

David Brierley, who raped a teenage girl just four months after being released from prison for an identical attack, has been jailed for life.

Two men who had been held without charge at the Guantanamo Bay for more than a decade have been sent back to their native Algeria against their will as part of a renewed effort to gradually close the prison, officials said Thursday.

Wildlife workers are returning to Everglades National Park in Florida on Thursday to try leading 41 pilot whales out of dangerously shallow waters and back to the ocean where they belong.